This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2009, held in Tokyo, Japan, in Decem
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2009, held in Vienna, Austria, in November 2009.The 42 revis
The two volume set LNCS 5875 and LNCS 5876 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2009, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2009
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, KRAMAS 2008, held in Sydney,
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2009, held in Salzburg, Austria, in November 2009.The 21 revised full papers and 10 short p
This volume constitutes the selected and extended papers of the International Conference on Advances in Communication and Networking, FGCN2008, and Its Special Sessions, held in Sanya, Hainan Island,
This volume constitutes the selected and extended papers of workshops and symposia of the International Conference, on Advances in Computational Science and Engineering, FGCN2008, held in Sanya, Haina
This volume constitutes the selected and extended papers of the International Conference on Advances in Security Technology, SecTech 2008, and Its Special Sessions, held in Sanya, Hainan Island, China
This volume constitutes the selected and extended papers of the International Conference on Advances in Software Engineering, ASEA 2008, and Its Special Sessions, as well as the International Conferen
The two volume set LNCS 5875 and LNCS 5876 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2009, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2009
Our daily interactions are based on recognizing people. As information technology advances, our interactions will be accomplished through newly designed interfaces, with a vital element being the aut
Web services based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and related standards, and deployed in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), are the key to Web-ba
The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2009, the Twenty-ninth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cam
This book contains a collection of selected and revised papers originally presented at the Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technology (WEWST'08) held in conjunction with the 6th European Conference o
This volume discusses the basic geometric contents of an image and presents a tree data structure to handle those contents efficiently. The nodes of the tree are derived from connected components of l
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2009, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November 2009.The 82 revised research papers pres
The field of sketch-based interfaces and modeling (SBIM) is concerned with developing methods and techniques to enable users to interact with a computer through sketching - a simple, yet highly expres
Production Grids in Asia: Applications, Developments and Global Ties, an edited volume, is based on ISGC (International Symposium on Grid Computing), one of the most prestigious annual events in Asia
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two joint events - the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2009 and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Meas
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2009, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in November 2009.The 64 revised full papers presented
Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information systems and technologies for national, international, and societal security-relat
This book provides an in-depth discussion of autonomous and autonomic systems, their interdependencies, differences and similarities. Current and pending issues in these evermore increasingly importa
This book contains the best papers of the third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2008, held in Porto, Portugal in July 2008.The purpose of ICSOFT 2008 was to bring to
This two-volume set LNCS 5870/5871 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four confederated international conferences on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2009), Distributed Objects and App
This book contains the best papers of the 5th International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE, which was held in July 2008, in Porto, Portugal. This conference reflects a continui
Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VII presents the results of the annual Genetic Programming Theory and Practice Workshop, contributed by the foremost international researchers and practitioners
Offers a presentation of the developments in Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. This volume addresses topics such as: Modeling complex environments Scene and event modeling, representation a
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MoDELS 2009, held in Denver, CO, USA, during October 4-9, 2009. T
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009, held in Goa, India, in November 2009.The 10 revised full papers presented we
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2009, held in Venice, Italy, in October
Data compression is one of the most important fields and tools in modern computing. From archiving data, to CD-ROMs, and from coding theory to image analysis, many facets of modern computing rely upon
Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in the development of information and communication technologies, and methods that arise in computer science, mathematics and operations research – in
The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2009, held in Guangzhou, China, November 11-13, 2009.The 19 revised full papers and t
Volumes CCIS 51 and LNCS 5812 constitute the proceedings of the Fourth Interational Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2009, held in Huangshi, China, during October 23-25.IS
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2009, held in Toyama, Japan, in October 2009.The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 in
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and Applications, SAGA 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009.The 15 revi
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2009, held in Venice, Italy, on October 29-30, 2009, as part of the 5th International Week
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Communicating Systems, TESTCOM 2009, and the 9th International Workshop on Formal Approaches
